Many of you may think of MindBody as the platform you use to book fitness classes. It turns out that this platform play was only introduced almost a decade later by MindBody. Since its inception, MindBody understood the power of becoming the operating system for a small business and the loyalty that comes with it. Disintermediation? Well, for them it’s not that big of a deal, since the platform play is just another feature in its suite of tools for small businesses to thrive.
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COVID-19 Boosting Mercadolibre’s Growth
COVID-19 has drastically shifted consumption to online platforms. Just in the last few weeks, Mercadolibre registered 1.7 million new customers. Overall, the number of deliveries also reached a record high, averaging more than 1.1 million orders per day.
Amazon Handmade: Not All Networks Can Be Stitched Together
In late 2015, experts declared Etsy dead as Amazon launched Handmade, it’s peer-to-peer marketplace for handmade products. And yet with all the factors in place to favor explosive growth, Handmade’s performance has been underwhelming at best. Where did Amazon miss the target?
ShelfZone, a VR tool for improving retailing
Shelfzone is a B2B VR program for retailers but hopes to one day be your digital shopping destination.
Google’s Chromecast: Masters of Scale
How the Chromecast captured an estimated 22% market share of OTT streaming devices in under three years.
“Most of the smartest people work for somebody else…” Kaggle in the new world of data science
Kaggle’s online data science platform is every software company’s critical new tool
Linux won the servers, but dead on desktop
Linux is present in very different markets where it has had vastly different results. What explains those differences?
The Sonos Platform is Greater than Software or Hardware
Sono's platform has made its hardware more valuable – not less – over time.